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Vet says Victoria had a benign mammary tumor. He thinks they got it all, and Victoria is cancer free. Hooray!

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Yesterday Victoria had surgery to remove a melanoma.

As you can see, it was a tiny thing that looked like an out of control mole right below her third nipple. When I showed it to the vet on Friday, he said, "Clear you calendar. We'll be having surgery on Monday." And we did.

Victoria came through just fine, but she's spent most the time since sleeping off her misadventures in the clinic. The vet says she didn't sleep much after her surgery because she was too busy barking at all the other dogs. (Even groggy, Victoria can be a little bossy.) We're still waiting for results from the lab to tell us how bad the cancer was. I'm told that will take a week.

The good news is that Victoria wears an Elizabethan collar like she was born for it. The bad news is that July is jealous that her sister is getting all the extra attention. There's no reasoning with a poodle scorned.

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Victoria doesn't like movies as much as I do.

You try watching television with that staring back at you.

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I came down with a migraine headache yesterday just as I was preparing to take the dogs for a walk. Victoria was very understanding, July less so. I think if I broke my leg, July might bring me her leash and try to drag me out the door.

I should take this opportunity to thank my parents for all the trouble I must have caused them. I'm sure I was far more stubborn and less forgiving than my poodle. Everything I know about parenting, I learned from my poodle.

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For most of this week, Atlanta was snowed under. We had ample warning that the storm was coming, but a delayed response by the state government and the Department of Transportation caused thousands of commuters to be trapped in their cars for 19 hours or more. Some children had to spend the night trapped in their school buses!

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal blamed the National Weather Service despite their predictions being remarkably accurate as far as 12 hours before the storm arrived. Adding insult to injury, the Georgia Emergency Management Agency Director said that GEMA didn't respond to the crushing gridlock for more than 3 hours because "it wasn't as gridlocked as it is now."

That's Georgia's government for you: we can't read a weather report and we don't open our umbrellas until we are already soaking wet.

But not everyone has been unhappy about the weather's effects. July and Victoria have spent as much time as I will let them outside playing in the snow.

I think it's funny that they hate rain but love snow. I've tried to explain to them that snow and rain are pretty much the same thing, but they don't listen. They never listen.

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